City Builder games on Steam
The niche at a glance
City Builder on Steam: 2,922 released games, 1,010 in the last 12 months, 1,583 announced and still unreleased. Median lifetime reviews: 19. 39% of them never reached 10 reviews. Free to play: 9%. City Builder is a Steam store tag, applied by the developer and refined by players; a game carries several tags at once, so niche counts overlap and do not add up to the size of the Steam catalogue. Data as of .
What releases end up with
lifetime reviews · released 3 years ago to 90 days ago · failures included1,217 releasesReleases per year
outcomes count only games released more than 90 days ago, anything newer has not had time to gather reviewsCity Builder × setting: what the pairings end up with
every setting tag shipped with City Builder at least 5 times · same window× setting× presentation| City Builder × | 3 y | 12 m | median | ≥500 | adjusted | vs chance | last hit | who made it | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alternate History | 30 | 11 | 158 | 46.7% 30%–64% | 30.7% | cliché ×1.85 | 221 d |    | |
| Historical | 133 | 41 | 105 | 30.1% 23%–38% | 27.0% | cliché ×4.10 | 152 d |   | |
| Post-apocalyptic | 41 | 14 | 190 | 31.7% 20%–47% | 23.5% | ordinary ×1.47 | 153 d |    | |
| Martial Arts | 6 | 1 | 1,268 | under 20 | 20.5% | ordinary ×0.38 | 200 d |    | |
| Rome | 12 | 6 | 276 | under 20 | 19.8% | cliché ×5.90 | 335 d |    | |
| Psychological Horror | 7 | 2 | 1,271 | under 20 | 19.8% | avoided ×0.07 | 201 d |   | |
| Farming Sim | 101 | 34 | 26 | 21.8% 15%–31% | 19.3% | cliché ×5.67 | 200 d |  | |
| Romance | 13 | 3 | 22 | under 20 | 19.2% | avoided ×0.26 | 565 d |    | |
| Dark Fantasy | 26 | 10 | 72 | 26.9% 14%–46% | 18.1% | ordinary ×0.58 | 187 d |    | |
| Medieval | 231 | 77 | 29 | 19.0% 15%–25% | 18.1% | cliché ×3.79 | 92 d |   | |
| War | 67 | 17 | 41 | 20.9% 13%–32% | 17.6% | cliché ×2.50 | 251 d |   | |
| Dating Sim | 16 | 4 | 153 | under 20 | 17.6% | avoided ×0.28 | 565 d |   | |
| Horror | 16 | 4 | 27 | under 20 | 17.6% | avoided ×0.11 | 187 d | | |
| Sci-fi | 88 | 35 | 27 | 19.3% 12%–29% | 17.0% | ordinary ×0.85 | 153 d |    | |
| Agriculture | 65 | 20 | 33 | 20.0% 12%–31% | 16.9% | cliché ×6.41 | 140 d |  |
About these numbers
“Adjusted” is the share pulled towards the catalogue with the weight of twenty releases: the top of any ranked list is optimistic (out of a hundred pairings one will show 35 % on 23 releases by luck alone), and the adjustment is what stops a small lucky group from leading. The band next to the raw share is the 95 % interval. This list is the same for everyone today; the second opinion is the description-based one on Pitch comps.
